Tuesday, February 20, 2007

New website launched by FACT

A new website was launched today by FACT - the Fisheries and Angling Conservation Trust.

It features the work of the trust and its member groups, useful contacts including MPs and other useful bodies both within and outside angling, and gives anglers the opportunity to communicate directkly with the FACT board.

FACT was formed two years ago to represent the interests of all anglers. At present, it is supported by subscription from its member organisations.

But as the organisation develops into the planned single body to represent all of angling the board hopes to establish closer contact with anglers, who will, in time, be able to become individual members of FACT.

The trust sees its website as a step towards this, as it gives all anglers an opportunity to participate directly in the workings and future development of FACT.

Jim Glasspool, chairman of FACT, said: “We hope that anglers will take the opportunity the new website presents to tell us of their concerns and to express support or otherwise of the campaigns which FACT is involved in.

"We aim for FACT to be truly representative in time and this website is one of the first steps to that future.”

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About the PAC

The Pike Anglers' Club of Great Britain was formed in 1977 as a direct result of changing attitudes toward pike. For far too long pike had been regarded by fishery owners and some anglers as vermin, to be killed and removed at all costs. Since it's inception, the PAC has done much to drastically change this mistaken attitude and pike are now widely regarded as a positive element in the natural balance of any fishery.

Pike fishing has without doubt become one of the most specialised branches of coarse fishing. Not least in the methods of handling, unhooking and safe return of the fish once caught.

The PAC works continually for the benefit of all pike and pike anglers, we seek only to further the opportunities for pike fishing, whilst preserving all that pike fishing is all about.

We strive to protect pike from persecution by those who do not understand, or choose to ignore, the facts about the important role the pike plays in the balance of nature. We also work to promote pike conservation through safe practice by anglers.

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